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AO3 Language Change
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Mind Map on AO3 Language Change, created by Tullia on 31/05/2013.
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AO3 Language Change
Old English
Beginnings of Literature
Beowulf
Latin Alphabet
Angles' Saxons, Jutes
Etymology
Middle English
1066 Norman Invasion
French Influence
Beginnings of the Great Vowel Shift 1350-1700
Early Modern English
William Caxton Printing Press.
1476
Standardisation
Shakespeare
Move towards Standardisation and stablisation of punctuation.
18th and 19th Century
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
1755
Standardisation
Removal of the Long 'S'
1785-1810
Lowth Grammar
1762
Published 'A Short Introduction to English Grammar'
Search for Prescriptive 'Pure Form'
Latin Ideal
English Today
Borrowing worldwide
Globalisation
Cultural Infusion
Pigeons
Born into two languages
Creoles
Native and new language merge together to form another
Drift towards colloquial use
Sociolinguistics
Education
Conflict
Class Systems
Politics and Power
Social Trends and Fashion
Technology
English Tomorrow
Pesemistic Approach
Overlapping, incomprehensible dialect
Optimistic Approach
Diversity benefits
World English
English as a Global Language
300-400 million native speakers
Language of Business
1.5 Billion speakers worldwide
Approaches
Descriptive
Modern
Comments on change
Language develops gradually and inevitibally
Prescriptive
Language is decaying
Crumbling castle, damp spoon etc.
Judges language change
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